Batman Forever (score)

Batman Forever: Original Motion Picture Score Album
Film score by Elliot Goldenthal
Released	July 11, 1995
Genre	Soundtrack score
Length	41:01
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Matthias Gohl
Elliot Goldenthal chronology
Cobb (1994) Batman Forever: Original Motion Picture Score Album (1995) Heat (1995)
Batman soundtracks chronology
Batman Forever (soundtrack) (1995) Batman Forever (score) (1995) Batman & Robin (1997)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Filmtracks	[2]
Movie Music UK	[3]
Musicfromthemovies	favorable[4]
Scoresounds	[5]
Soundtrack-Express	[6]

Batman Forever: Original Motion Picture Score Album is a 1995 Grammy-nominated film score album for Batman Forever, composed by Elliot Goldenthal. It was released in conjunction with its soundtrack counterpart. Despite Goldenthal having recorded over 2 hours of music, the soundtrack only had 45 minutes before La-La Land Records released an expanded version in 2012. The score features big brass, strings and discordant noises while maintaining an anthemic sound. Regarding the villainous leitmotifs, Goldenthal said Two-Face features paired notes and doubled beats while being inspired by Russian composers such as Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, and Riddler has a sound reminiscent of old science fiction B-movies with a theremin.^[7] On the U2 single "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", there is a track titled "Themes from Batman Forever" composed by Goldenthal; this can also be found on the expanded release issued in 2012.